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Catskill Mountain Region GUIDE October 2012 Catskill Mountain Region October 2012 GUIDEwww.catskillregionguide.com YOUR HOME, INSIDE & OUT The Catskill Mountain Foundation presents Jazz Masters of the Piano Performance Museum: Kenny Barron Solo Classical Jazz Concert Saturday, October 13, 8 pm “The most lyrical piano player of our time.” —Jazz Weekly “one of the top jazz pianists in the world” —The Los Angeles Times Doctorow Center for the Arts 7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter Tickets/Info: 518 263 2063 or www.catskillmtn.org TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 27, NUMBER 10 October 2012 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Rita Adami • Steve Friedman Susan Griffin • Garan Santicola • Albert Verdesca CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Sandy Frinton, Jeff Senterman, Carol and David White Additional editorial provided by ARAcontent. ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee Toni Perretti Laureen Priputen PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing DISTRIBUTION Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: October 6 The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 924, Hunter, NY 12442. If you have events or programs that you would like to have covered, please send them by e-mail to tafts@ catskillmtn.org. Please be sure to furnish a contact name and in- clude your address, telephone, fax, and e-mail information on all correspondence. For editorial and photo submission guidelines send a request via e-mail to [email protected]. 2 THE ARTS The liability of the publisher for any error for which it may be held legally responsible will not exceed the cost of space ordered or occupied by the error. The publisher assumes no liability for errors in key numbers. The publisher will not, in any event, be SPECIAL SECTION: YOUR HOME, INSIDE & OUT liable for loss of income or profits or any consequent damages. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide office is located in 8 BEAUTIFUL ROOMS ARE MEANT TO BE LIVED IN Hunter Village Square in the Village of Hunter on Route 23A. The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org by clicking on the “Guide Magazine” button, or by going directly to www.catskillregionguide.com 10 BOOST YOUR HOME’S VALUE: Four Projects with the 7,000 copies of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide are distributed each month. It is distributed free of charge at the Most Bang for Your Buck Plattekill, Sloatsburg and New Baltimore rest stops on the New York State Thruway, and at the tourist information offices, restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. 12 ARRIVING FOR FALL: “FRESH FROM THE CATSKILLS” Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an By Sandy Frinton additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region 16 THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- By Jeff Senterman graphic rights reside with the photographer. 18 BEST AUTUMN VIEWING IN THE THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION CATSKILL FOREST PRESERVE 7970 MAIN STREET By Carol and David White P.O. BOX 924 HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 23 OCTOBER AT THE FAX: 518 263 2025 WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION October 2012 • guide 1 THE ARTS Deluge, acrylic on canvas by Rosalind Tobias ALPHABET, Solo Exhibition by Rosalind Tobias and TYPO, Group Exhibition at Greene County Council on the Arts in Catskill Artists explore the alphabet, numbers, punctuation and symbols in two exhibitions on view October 6 through November 3 at the Greene County Council on the Arts Gallery in Catskill. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 6 from 5 to 7 pm. Artists’ books, broadsheets, postcards and paintings bridge the graphic, calligraphic, mathematical and metaphoric. In the upstairs gallery, Rosalind Tobias’ solo exhibit ALPHABET evokes an ethereal Rosetta stone with soft figures structured in a loose grid. Her invented alphabet emerges from the cloudlike painting ground. These works inspired TYPO, the group show in the first floor gallery with works by Fern Apfel, William Barnds, Kate Boyer, Dikko Faust, Kim McLean, Art Murphy, Bez Ocko, Purgatory Pie Press, Miles Rago, Leonard Seastone and Esther Smith. Fern Apfel’s work combines painted still lives in an intimately scaled, poetic montage of words carefully sliced from books. Leon- ard Seastone’s graphic broadsides and artist books comment on the process and construction of hand bound books. These black and white studies utilize Seastone’s collection of oversize wood letter sets, illustrating a lifetime of experiments with hand set type, a fascina- tion with paper and an expertise in highly crafted bindings. Esther Smith’s Purgatory Pie Press also produces artist books in addition to limited edition postcards and drink coasters with a playful sense of humor. In some cases the alphabet is the subject of the work, in others the typeface is a part of her palette. Kate Boyer’s ink and watercolor calligraphy recalls the enlarged letter at the beginning of illustrated manuscripts. Bez Ocko’s over- size variations on an exit sign and camouflage versions of “wholelottalove” and “sunshineofyourlife” reveal her typography expertise, a lecture subject she has presented internationally. William Barnds’ self-portrait shows the artist’s confused expression floating in a sea of equations. Kim McLean’s surrealist constructions employ design software to create 3-D objects in a theatrical setting. The planes are then digitally wrapped in the pages from the Greene County phone book. Don’t miss the t-shirt selection in the GCCA’s Artful Hand Gallery Gift Shop featuring work by Sarah Wellington and Laurie Arbeiter, creators of the WE WILL NOT BE SILENT Language Project. Their statement t-shirts, hoodies and performances remind us to STAY HUMAN, BEGIN AGAIN and RECLAIM THE COMMON The GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main Street in Catskill. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 to 5 p.m., closed Sunday. Contact 518 943 3400,www.greenearts.org or [email protected] for more information. 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com TAMI BONE: Mythos at Galerie BMG in Woodstock Tami Bone’s most recent and ongoing body of work, “Mythos,” features dreamy and soft-focused black and white images, woven into a personal and poetic narrative. Taken from fragments of memory and figments of imagination from a childhood spent growing up in Deep South Texas, the photographs tell an unfinished story, both true and imagined. The story is made up of three parts, each as if a chapter in a book, calling forth memories, imaginings and hope and dreams. According to the artist: “I believe that all of our stories, in essence, the way we choose to interpret ourselves and our world, are significant and have the power to shape our lives. This ongoing project is my story. The images are sometimes, but not always, constructions of several images. Each one begins as notes written about a particular memory or imagining from my childhood. I find working in this way, from a personal narrative, to be very exciting. One memory triggers another. The journey from concept to finish seems to have a mind all its own, as if the story wants to be told as much as I want to do the telling.” Tami attended the University of Texas, and later discovered her interest in the potential of the still image. For much of her adult life, she has pieced together an ongoing photographic education, including formal classes, workshops and continuous self-education. Her work has been shown nationally in both invitational group ex- hibitions and juried exhibitions, and in 2012 is being shown in three solo exhibitions and featured in several international publications. Mythos will be on display from October 12 through December 3, 2012, with an artist’s reception on Saturday, October 13 from 5-7 pm. Galerie BMG is located at 12 Tannery Brook Road in Woodstock. Regular gallery hours are Friday through Monday 12-5 pm or other times by appointment. For further information, please contact the gallery at 845 679 0027. October 2012 • guide 3 Louis Rémy Mignot, View across the Valley of Pierstown, New York from a Point above Cascade Hill. c.1858. Oil on canvas, 17 ½ x 31 ½ in. Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Museum of Art. Worlds Between: Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site through October The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is now showing Worlds Between: Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot through October 28, 2012. Curated by Katherine E. Manthorne, this is the first major solo show of Louis Rémy Mignot (1831-1870) in over two decades. The exhibition offers an intimate look at the work of this young, Charleston-born artist who painted in the style of the Hudson River School—and whose tragic life story is as captivating as his landscape paintings. In this exhibition the Thomas Cole National Historic Site offers a rare chance to see a full range of Mignot’s accomplished and fascinating work—paintings that move between worlds and ports, and that remain full of complexity, enigma, and beauty unsurpassed. Guest Curator Katherine Manthorne brings her expertise on traveler artists to this gem of an exhibition and accompanying catalog, which offers a fresh look at Mignot as a painter whose global journeying fed his unique artistic creativity. Specifically, at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site one may view Mignot’s early Dutch landscapes, subtly nuanced snow scenes, coloristic Tropical landscapes, and painterly European pictures.
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